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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Friendship Victory Win Yourself
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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